Thread: Projectile choice 284

I’ve been using the .284 for the past few years where the first barrel was 16 inches for north island bush hunting. I used 150 gr Sierras SP’s and they worked a dream

When we headed south I swapped barrels putting on a 20 inch barrel for longer shots. The only projectile I’ve run so far has been 140 gr ballistic tips and they’ve been used on reds, fallow, tahr, chamois all the way out to 535 mtrs killing well.

No animals required a follow up shot but after using the 140 gr projectiles I couldn’t see myself going up to a heavier projectile.

A few years back I read of an American hunter who used the .284 exclusively hunting all North American game for many decades and his chosen projectile was the 140 gr Nosler Partition and he swore by them